4: How flammable is it? Diesel is flammable, but gasoline not just has liquid, but gasoline vapors give a risk of explosion.
Technically, Diesel is combustible, not flammable; gasoline is flammable.
YMMV
Unfortunately this announcement comes from the executive branch of the US government. Many of us have developed zero trust in anything coming from DC.
So what about the report coming from the government of the state of Oklahoma, which says basically the same thing?
Fracking has been going on for nearly 50 years.
But only fairly recently has it been employed in large scale in the relevant area. It wasn't economically feasible in lots of cases due to the availability of much easier and cheaper sources of oil and gas.
But now...NOW, it's causing earthquakes.
Apparently so. Do you have evidence of an alternative reason for earthquakes to go from 2/year prior to 2008 up to over 2/DAY in 2013?
It's not the fracking per se, it's the deep well injection of waste water. True, fracking creates waste water that usually gets disposed of by injecting it into deep wells, but in the subject case 4/5ths of the waste water comes from old regular wells. Apparently the cost of oil is high enough that it is worth it to go after oil that is contaminated by water, extract the water, and sell the oil.
So lets say I have a standing order to buy FooBar stock at $50 a share. Its current price is $55. So basically I'm looking to buy on dips. Tonight it comes out that the CEO has been falsifying all financial reports, and instead of making money for the last 3 years they've lost millions. You don't think I should be able to cancel that buy order due to the new information?
You're missing the part where he cancelled after having his offer accepted, and did so repeatedly, with no intention to sell, until he drove the price enough to make stacks of cash from futures.
Was a simple, after-school detention not an option for some reason?
Been there. Done that. Three strikes and you're out. (RTFA)
Still, a felony seems awfully harsh.
Maybe because the US, Liberia, and Myanmar are the only 3 countries in the ENTIRE WORLD that have not officially converted to metric.
On the contrary, the US officially defines feet, inches, pounds, etc. in SI units (and has for quite a number of years). So in that sense, the US is on the Metric system.
Besides, $10 billion is literally less than what Americans spent on Starbucks coffee last year alone.
So, I'm not allowed to argue against excessive Starbucks spending, either?
Personally, I'd rather argue against both. (I have no problem losing a good argument, if you can convince me $10 billion was really worth it for the experience, but I don't think any one in this thread has the actual information to know one way or the other.)
Phase I is a prototype/proof of concept. After that, the government project managers make a decision about whether the product is good enough to warrant Phase II funding. If it is, they go ahead and fund it. If it's REALLY good, they do a Phase III which is basically a commercialization.
Problem is, most of these got well beyond Phase 1 without a chance in hell of ever getting to Phase 3, and still got plenty of funding that would have been better spent in Phase 1.
(Additionally, I would argue that you may need another Phase category - basic research/proof of concept would be Phase 1, and a prototype more of Phase 2)
Is it because they're whores and will do anything for loose change? That's pretty much my standard answer for any headline in the format "Why is blank blanking?"
Actually, in this case, TFA gives a different answer: Because McCarthy has been pushing patent reform legislation.
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